I created an UWP application for my Raspberry Pi 2 model b+ with Windows iot core.
This application controls my lights, thermostat and ventsystem.
To control my ventsystem i have a Moxa NPort 5230 connected to it.
This device is a LAN server creating a serialport over LAN. For Windows 10 there is a driver that allows me to create a virtual serial port (as in COM1 -> redirects to ie 192.168.0.1) connecting to that device.
I contacted Moxa to ask if there is a driver for Windows iot core, but there isn't unfortunatly.
To solve my problem, i am looking for a way to install a virtual serial port on my Windows iot core that redirects to the local ipaddress of the Moxa device.
Does someone have experience with this?
If this is not possible in Windows iot...
Is there a way to send data in c# to this device with specific bautrate etc?
Thanks in advance.
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Windows IoT Core does not support virtual serial port.Raspberry Pi 2 Model B+ has on-board serial port and 4 USB ports.You can connect NPort 5230 to Pi2 directly with on-board serial port(by referring to PIN mapping in the specification of Raspberry Pi 2 Model B+).Another way is that,you can connect it with USB to TTL Serial Converter Module,currently only CP2102 USB 2.0 to TTL Module Serial Converter is supported officially,you can refer to this hardware compatibility list for more information.In addition,you can follow the offical sample of Serial UART Communication.
